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STEWARD
Sustainable and Thriving Environments
for West African Regional Development
Program Background
The Upper Guinean Tropical Forest ecosystem is one of West Africa’s eight ma-
jor biomes, and it has an estimated 9,000 species of vascular plants. Of these,
2,250 (25%) are believed to be endemic. The ecosystem ranks high globally for
both plant species diversity and endemism. However, this forest is highly degrad-
ed, having experienced dramatic encroachment and fragmentation as a result of
expanding human activities that have reduced the forest to approximately 10%
of its original 1,265,000-km² area. What forest remains is severely threatened
by continued use of unsustainable land use practices, mining and other threats.


The History of STEWARD
The STEWARD program is a forest conservation and sustainable livelihoods
program supported by the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) and the United States Forest Service / International Programs (USFS/IP).    STEWARD Goal
STEWARD’s strategic objective is to implement a coherent regional program that
addresses transboundary threats to biodiversity, capitalizes on regional opportu-   The overall goal of the STEWARD program is to promote transboundary, landscape-
nities to spread best practices, harmonizes policies, and addresses the adverse     scale strategies for, and promising approaches to, sustainable natural resource
effects of global climate change in priority zones of the Upper Guinean Forest      management, improved livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and climate change
ecosystem.  In its design phase, STEWARD started work on biodiversity conserva-     adaptation and mitigation in priority zones in the Upper Guinean Forest ecosystem.
tion (October 2007-June 2009). The pilot phase (July 2009-February 2011)            STEWARD activities include building capacity for regional collaboration on biodi-
expanded on this by addressing regional threats to biodiversity, supporting peace   versity conservation, sustainable agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH),
building, knowledge dissemination, and policy harmonization. Currently STEW-        and harmonization of national policies for improved ecosystems and natural re-
ARD is in its implementation phase, a four-year (March 2011-September 2015),        source management in transboundary priority zones in the Mano River Union States
18 million dollar program (with 6 implementing partners (CARE-Sierra Leone;         (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone).  The STEWARD priority zones are;
Bioclimate Research and Development Ltd; PCI Media Impact Inc.; Thomson             1) Sierra Leone (Outamba-Kilimi National Park) / Guinea (Madina Oula, Soya and
Reuters; United Actors for Rural Development (AUDER); and Fauna and Flora           Ouré Kaba sub prefectures and 2) Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire (Mount Nimba) / Libe-
International (FFI) through funding from USAID/West Africa.                         ria (East Nimba Nature Reserve) and 3) (potentially) Ziama - Wonegisi straddling the
                                                                                    border between Guinea and Liberia.
Notable successes of the design and pilot phases of STEWARD include:
•	 A successful regional policy harmonization assessment workshop, that forms
   the basis for the current policy harmonization efforts in the region;
•	 Training and capacity building of government and local community partners
   in natural resource management best practices;
•	 Development of sustainable forest management plans;
•	 Non-timber forest products analysis and training by the Nature Conservation
   Research Center;
•	 Communications outreach and environmental education theater production
   by the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation;
•	 Piloting of a community based carbon monitoring method;
•	 GIS training; and
•	 Establishment of the transboundary Gola Rainforest National Park through a
   grant to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Senegal


                                                                                                                            Mali
        STEWARD Priority Zones
        Mano River Union countries showing
       location of PZ1 and PZ2 and proposed                                        Guinea
             approximate location of PZ3



                                                      10°0'0"N

                                                                                 PZ1

                                                                 CONAKRY
                                                                       

                                                                    FREETOWN
                                                                              Sierra Leone
                                                                                                               PZ3

                                                                                                                     PZ2
                                                                                                                           Ivory Coast



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              50


                   100
                                 ¯  200
                                                                                                    Liberia
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Date Created/Last Updated 15/11/2012
Map Filename: STEWARD3_PMA_STEWARDPriorityZones
Coordinate System: GCS WGS 1984
Datum: WGS 1984
Units: Degree
Data Sources:
                                                      5°0'0"N




Topography and Admin: DIVA, STEWARD, SLIS,
Conservation International and WINROCK via USGS
PZ Definition: STEWARD and FFI/ERA
Biosphere: FFI/ERA
The depiction and use of boundaries, names and
associated data shown here do not imply endorsement
or acceptance by USAID, USFS or STEWARD and its
partners
Produced by Thomson Reuters for the STEWARD Project                                                 10°0'0"W
STEWARD Partners
STEWARD implements activities through various stakeholders and partner organizations.
Stakeholders include the Mano River Union, conservation authorities in the Mano River
Union states, local and traditional authorities, communities and the private sector part-
ners. The implementing partners funded by the STEWARD program are:                                    FFI
                                                                                                      FFI works to establish responsive and replicable management
                                                                                                      models that promote ecological integrity of the Nimba Mountains
                                                                                                      and enhance the well-being of local people facing increasing
                                                                                                      threats from human activities including subsistence pressures,
                             AUDER (United Actors for Rural Development)                              mining operations and climate change. FFI aims to do so mainly
                             AUDER activities are geared towards promoting sustainable agri-          by improving collaboration between all stakeholders associated
                             culture and livelihoods in the rural areas surrounding the Nimba         with the Nimba Mountains and establishment of harmonized poli-
                             Mountains in Guinea and Ivory Coast. AUDER has extensive expe-           cies and legal frameworks for natural resource management in
                             rience in participatory community development. Activities include;       the region.
                             strengthening the capacities of communities and stakeholders for
                             sustainable participatory development; improving land manage-
                             ment to conserve biodiversity and combat climate change; and             PCI Media Impact
                             improve productivity of agricultural and fish production systems         PCI Media Impact is an international leader in supporting social
                             and diversify incomes to enhance food security.                          change through communication by designing and implementing
                                                                                                      media messages both to entertain and educate. This increases
                             Bioclimate                                                               audience members’ knowledge about an issue, creates favorable
                             Bioclimate is a non-profit organization based in Edinburgh, Scot-        attitudes and changes behavior. Under the STEWARD program,
                             land, with a West Africa office in Sierra Leone. It strives to improve   PCI Media Impact will equip and empower stakeholders within
                             the livelihoods of rural communities by helping them manage              the Mano River Union to use Entertainment-Education and social
                             natural resources sustainably and access markets for ecosystem           marketing communications approaches to enhance the program's
                             services. Within the STEWARD program, Bioclimate is working              impact and support base and catalyze change among target
                             with local communities adjacent to Outamba/Kilimi National Park          communities. Its communication activities, mainly through a radio
                             in Sierra Leone and Madina Oula/Oure Kaba and Soya sub-                  drama program and an awareness campaign will enhance local
                             prefectures Guinea, Priority Zone 1 (PZ1) to integrate a system of       knowledge and understanding about natural resource manage-
                             Community Payments for Environmental Services (Community PES)            ment, biodiversity conservation, climate change and WASH.
                             with community-based forest management. This incentive-based
                             approach aims to bring about lasting change in local land use
                             and livelihoods through improved governance and management               Thomson Reuters
                             of natural resources, the promotion of small village enterprise and      Thomson Reuters has been tasked with coordinating the Geo-
                             equitable sharing of PES benefits to help meet community health          graphic Information System (GIS) for STEWARD and its partners
                             and development needs. Bioclimate is a partnering with CARE              through establishing GIS centers and documenting customary
                             Sierra Leone in PZ1.                                                     land rights in selected communities of the project Priority Zones
                                                                                                      (PZs) in the region. Apart from training, field staff, partners and
                             CARE                                                                     government agencies in GIS and GPS, they will establish a GIS
                             CARE International has been fighting poverty for 50 years and            Center in Freetown and replicate the GIS Centre activities within
                             works to enhance economic opportunities and sustainable liveli-          the Manu River Union states. Thomson Reuters will also undertake
                             hoods of communities living adjacent to and in the buffer zones          Pilot Community and Land Rights Mapping (documenting land
                             of Outamba/Kilimi National Park in Sierra Leone and Madina               and resource information) and support for the GIS user commu-
                             Oula/Oure Kaba and Soya sub-prefectures Guinea (PZ1). CARE’s             nity in Sierra Leone.
                             activities support the conservation and sustainable management
                             of the biodiversity and natural resources base of the area. In the
                             STEWARD program, CARE is partnering with Bioclimate in PZ1 and
                             works with several other partners (PRIDE, Sierra Leone Conserva-
                             tion Society, and Cornell University) to share knowledge and build
                             local capacity through information gathering, documentation and
                             dissemination of lessons learned and best practices of sustainable
                             livelihoods and natural resource management.
STEWARD Activities
Through its stakeholders and implementing partners STEWARD will:

•	 Improve policy and legal frameworks for natural resources manage-
   ment, biodiversity conservation and climate change throughout the
   Mano River Union (MRU);

•	 Assist in the development and implementation of forest management
   plans on community lands and in protected areas to promote biodi-
   versity conservation;

•	 Improve the capacity of forest-dependent communities and institutions
   to mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change;

•	 Promote sustainable livelihoods in communities adjacent to forests
   and within buffer zones;

•	 Develop climate-resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sys-
   tems and services among rural populations;

•	 Monitor program impact on land use and land cover change using
   remote sensing and satellite image analyses;

•	 Develop viable Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) models including
   Carbon Finance; and

•	 Develop viable and sustainable Non-Timber Forest Products value
   chains.

All activities are coordinated by the USFS/IP through their project office in
Freetown in collaboration with the USAID/West Africa Mission, implement-
ing partners, national governments, and other relevant partners. For more
information, please contact us at info@stewardprogram.com.

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PCI-Media Impact – STEWARD Brochure

  • 1. STEWARD Sustainable and Thriving Environments for West African Regional Development
  • 2. Program Background The Upper Guinean Tropical Forest ecosystem is one of West Africa’s eight ma- jor biomes, and it has an estimated 9,000 species of vascular plants. Of these, 2,250 (25%) are believed to be endemic. The ecosystem ranks high globally for both plant species diversity and endemism. However, this forest is highly degrad- ed, having experienced dramatic encroachment and fragmentation as a result of expanding human activities that have reduced the forest to approximately 10% of its original 1,265,000-km² area. What forest remains is severely threatened by continued use of unsustainable land use practices, mining and other threats. The History of STEWARD The STEWARD program is a forest conservation and sustainable livelihoods program supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Forest Service / International Programs (USFS/IP). STEWARD Goal STEWARD’s strategic objective is to implement a coherent regional program that addresses transboundary threats to biodiversity, capitalizes on regional opportu- The overall goal of the STEWARD program is to promote transboundary, landscape- nities to spread best practices, harmonizes policies, and addresses the adverse scale strategies for, and promising approaches to, sustainable natural resource effects of global climate change in priority zones of the Upper Guinean Forest management, improved livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and climate change ecosystem.  In its design phase, STEWARD started work on biodiversity conserva- adaptation and mitigation in priority zones in the Upper Guinean Forest ecosystem. tion (October 2007-June 2009). The pilot phase (July 2009-February 2011) STEWARD activities include building capacity for regional collaboration on biodi- expanded on this by addressing regional threats to biodiversity, supporting peace versity conservation, sustainable agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), building, knowledge dissemination, and policy harmonization. Currently STEW- and harmonization of national policies for improved ecosystems and natural re- ARD is in its implementation phase, a four-year (March 2011-September 2015), source management in transboundary priority zones in the Mano River Union States 18 million dollar program (with 6 implementing partners (CARE-Sierra Leone; (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone).  The STEWARD priority zones are; Bioclimate Research and Development Ltd; PCI Media Impact Inc.; Thomson 1) Sierra Leone (Outamba-Kilimi National Park) / Guinea (Madina Oula, Soya and Reuters; United Actors for Rural Development (AUDER); and Fauna and Flora Ouré Kaba sub prefectures and 2) Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire (Mount Nimba) / Libe- International (FFI) through funding from USAID/West Africa. ria (East Nimba Nature Reserve) and 3) (potentially) Ziama - Wonegisi straddling the border between Guinea and Liberia. Notable successes of the design and pilot phases of STEWARD include: • A successful regional policy harmonization assessment workshop, that forms the basis for the current policy harmonization efforts in the region; • Training and capacity building of government and local community partners in natural resource management best practices; • Development of sustainable forest management plans; • Non-timber forest products analysis and training by the Nature Conservation Research Center; • Communications outreach and environmental education theater production by the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation; • Piloting of a community based carbon monitoring method; • GIS training; and • Establishment of the transboundary Gola Rainforest National Park through a grant to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
  • 3. Senegal Mali STEWARD Priority Zones Mano River Union countries showing location of PZ1 and PZ2 and proposed Guinea approximate location of PZ3 10°0'0"N PZ1 CONAKRY  FREETOWN  Sierra Leone PZ3 PZ2 Ivory Coast 0 0 miles 50 100 ¯ 200  Liberia MONROVIA km Date Created/Last Updated 15/11/2012 Map Filename: STEWARD3_PMA_STEWARDPriorityZones Coordinate System: GCS WGS 1984 Datum: WGS 1984 Units: Degree Data Sources: 5°0'0"N Topography and Admin: DIVA, STEWARD, SLIS, Conservation International and WINROCK via USGS PZ Definition: STEWARD and FFI/ERA Biosphere: FFI/ERA The depiction and use of boundaries, names and associated data shown here do not imply endorsement or acceptance by USAID, USFS or STEWARD and its partners Produced by Thomson Reuters for the STEWARD Project 10°0'0"W
  • 4. STEWARD Partners STEWARD implements activities through various stakeholders and partner organizations. Stakeholders include the Mano River Union, conservation authorities in the Mano River Union states, local and traditional authorities, communities and the private sector part- ners. The implementing partners funded by the STEWARD program are: FFI FFI works to establish responsive and replicable management models that promote ecological integrity of the Nimba Mountains and enhance the well-being of local people facing increasing threats from human activities including subsistence pressures, AUDER (United Actors for Rural Development) mining operations and climate change. FFI aims to do so mainly AUDER activities are geared towards promoting sustainable agri- by improving collaboration between all stakeholders associated culture and livelihoods in the rural areas surrounding the Nimba with the Nimba Mountains and establishment of harmonized poli- Mountains in Guinea and Ivory Coast. AUDER has extensive expe- cies and legal frameworks for natural resource management in rience in participatory community development. Activities include; the region. strengthening the capacities of communities and stakeholders for sustainable participatory development; improving land manage- ment to conserve biodiversity and combat climate change; and PCI Media Impact improve productivity of agricultural and fish production systems PCI Media Impact is an international leader in supporting social and diversify incomes to enhance food security. change through communication by designing and implementing media messages both to entertain and educate. This increases Bioclimate audience members’ knowledge about an issue, creates favorable Bioclimate is a non-profit organization based in Edinburgh, Scot- attitudes and changes behavior. Under the STEWARD program, land, with a West Africa office in Sierra Leone. It strives to improve PCI Media Impact will equip and empower stakeholders within the livelihoods of rural communities by helping them manage the Mano River Union to use Entertainment-Education and social natural resources sustainably and access markets for ecosystem marketing communications approaches to enhance the program's services. Within the STEWARD program, Bioclimate is working impact and support base and catalyze change among target with local communities adjacent to Outamba/Kilimi National Park communities. Its communication activities, mainly through a radio in Sierra Leone and Madina Oula/Oure Kaba and Soya sub- drama program and an awareness campaign will enhance local prefectures Guinea, Priority Zone 1 (PZ1) to integrate a system of knowledge and understanding about natural resource manage- Community Payments for Environmental Services (Community PES) ment, biodiversity conservation, climate change and WASH. with community-based forest management. This incentive-based approach aims to bring about lasting change in local land use and livelihoods through improved governance and management Thomson Reuters of natural resources, the promotion of small village enterprise and Thomson Reuters has been tasked with coordinating the Geo- equitable sharing of PES benefits to help meet community health graphic Information System (GIS) for STEWARD and its partners and development needs. Bioclimate is a partnering with CARE through establishing GIS centers and documenting customary Sierra Leone in PZ1. land rights in selected communities of the project Priority Zones (PZs) in the region. Apart from training, field staff, partners and CARE government agencies in GIS and GPS, they will establish a GIS CARE International has been fighting poverty for 50 years and Center in Freetown and replicate the GIS Centre activities within works to enhance economic opportunities and sustainable liveli- the Manu River Union states. Thomson Reuters will also undertake hoods of communities living adjacent to and in the buffer zones Pilot Community and Land Rights Mapping (documenting land of Outamba/Kilimi National Park in Sierra Leone and Madina and resource information) and support for the GIS user commu- Oula/Oure Kaba and Soya sub-prefectures Guinea (PZ1). CARE’s nity in Sierra Leone. activities support the conservation and sustainable management of the biodiversity and natural resources base of the area. In the STEWARD program, CARE is partnering with Bioclimate in PZ1 and works with several other partners (PRIDE, Sierra Leone Conserva- tion Society, and Cornell University) to share knowledge and build local capacity through information gathering, documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices of sustainable livelihoods and natural resource management.
  • 5. STEWARD Activities Through its stakeholders and implementing partners STEWARD will: • Improve policy and legal frameworks for natural resources manage- ment, biodiversity conservation and climate change throughout the Mano River Union (MRU); • Assist in the development and implementation of forest management plans on community lands and in protected areas to promote biodi- versity conservation; • Improve the capacity of forest-dependent communities and institutions to mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change; • Promote sustainable livelihoods in communities adjacent to forests and within buffer zones; • Develop climate-resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sys- tems and services among rural populations; • Monitor program impact on land use and land cover change using remote sensing and satellite image analyses; • Develop viable Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) models including Carbon Finance; and • Develop viable and sustainable Non-Timber Forest Products value chains. All activities are coordinated by the USFS/IP through their project office in Freetown in collaboration with the USAID/West Africa Mission, implement- ing partners, national governments, and other relevant partners. For more information, please contact us at info@stewardprogram.com.